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About Ellen CassedyClose

EllenCassedy

Who am I

Author of "We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust" (University of Nebraska Press, 2012), winner of the 2013 National Book Prize from Grub Street, the 2013 Towson Prize for Literature, the 2012 Silver Medal for History awarded by the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards, and the 2013 Prakhin International Literary Foundation Award.

I am a frequent speaker about Jewish and Lithuanian issues. I'm a Yiddish translator.

I'm a former columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and the author of two books for working women. My articles have appeared in Hadassah, The Jewish Daily Forward, the Huffington Post, Haaretz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Lilith, Bridges, Utne Reader, Polin, and Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies.

"We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust" (U. of Nebraska Press, 2012); Yiddish translations in "Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars (Warner Books, 2003); play "Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn," adapted into a film of the same name, 2008.

Services I offer to other writers

Sign up for my mailing list on www.ellencassedy.com and I will send you my "10 Tips for Memoir Writers", including a list of my favorite memoirs.

Speaking about my book at bookstores and book clubs, synagogues and genealogy societies, universities, writing conferences, writing classes, and adult education centers is one of my favorite activities as an author. Being in contact with audiences... See more

Writing Status Badges

Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.

“I can’t remember.”
“I don’t know.”
“That’s personal.”
When she interviewed her mother about her experiences during the Holocaust, my friend Barbara Rylko-Bauer heard those words more times than she can say.
As a daughter and as an anthropologist,... See more

Writing Status Badges

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How many readers is enough?
Five panelists at the AWP conference in Seattle (February 26-March 1, 2014) posed this question and tried to answer it.
“How many readers will it take to feel I haven’t wasted my time?”... See more

Writing Status Badges

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Fellow writers often ask me to comment on their work in progress, and I’m always looking for ideas about how to do it better.
So at the huge AWP conference in Seattle a few weeks ago (13,000 participants, 700 events), I made a... See more

Writing Status Badges

Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.

How many readers is enough?
Five panelists at the AWP conference in Seattle (February 26-March 1, 2014) posed this question and tried to answer it.
“How many readers will it take to feel I haven’t wasted my time?”... See more

Writing Status Badges

Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.

Speaking about my book at bookstores and book clubs, synagogues and genealogy societies, universities, writing conferences, writing classes, and adult education centers is one of my favorite activities as an author. Being in contact with audiences... See more

Writing Status Badges

Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.

Great post! Also check out a post I wrote: "Who Cares about Your Family Story? Ten Tips to Ensure Readers Will Care" here on SheWrites: http://www.shewrites.com/profiles/blogs/who-cares-about-your-family-story-ten-tips-to-ensure-readers-will/edit

Writing Status Badges

Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.

Are you writing a novel about "the world as it is with an eye for how it could be”? If so, Barbara Kingsolver may have a prize for you. Check out the submission guidelines for the PEN/Bellwether Prize (and join the... See more

Writing Status Badges

Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.